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Quality June 2019

2019 June

Check out the June 2019 edition of Quality: Laser trackers, tensile data, fixtures for testing composites, calibration software and much more!

New Features, Industries Elevate Laser Trackers

A big selling point of recent iterations is seamless integration into a user’s work process.

Leah

June 1, 2019

Compared to CMMs and articulating arms, laser trackers constitute a fairly young technology. In use for about 30 years, these increasingly portable and flexible devices are known for measuring large objects by determining the positions of optical targets, usually spherically mounted retroreflectors (SMRs) that a technician holds up against the objects.

Climbing drum peel fixture, ASTM D1781

Fixtures for Testing Composites

It is critical to understand the material being tested in order to choose the correct tensile setup.

June 8, 2019

Both the automotive and aerospace industries continue to drive the development of lightweight steels, stronger aluminums, and composite materials.

Quality Management

The Current State of Quality

Take a closer look at the ever-changing quality profession.

Michelle

Michelle Bangert

June 8, 2019

Long-time quality professionals agree: the industry is not the same as when they started. No longer are quality managers seen as the police officers of the plant, checking to make sure nothing has gone wrong.

CAPA Processes

Why Product-Centric Quality Improves CAPA Processes

June 8, 2019

For medical device manufacturers, having a product that functions as designed is critical, as a person’s health—or even their life—could be at risk. It’s one thing if my Alexa won’t respond to a voice command to remind me of a task, but it may be life threatening if my asthma inhaler won’t give me the medication I need when I’m struggling to breathe.

digitalization

A Calibration Software Solution

Integrating calibration software with asset management software for a comprehensive calibration solution and work order automation.

June 8, 2019

Not long ago, IT integration projects were an intimidating task due to the historic number of failed projects. This is not the case today because the technology exists and when combined with proper implementation they are very successful.

laser trackers

Laser Trackers Take a Bold Step into Scanning

Large scale metrology grade scanning debuts this year.

June 1, 2019

The time is the late 1960s. Detroit muscle cars roam the streets. Woodstock is just around the corner. Passenger air travel is growing at an unprecedented rate.

tensile testing

Analyzing and Reporting Tensile Data on Force Measurement Systems

Using readily available tools such as graphs, tolerances, comments, and test criteria ensures that the required tensile information is on hand when needed.

James M. Clinton

June 1, 2019

When testing the properties of a material or component, a range of options are available for examining, reporting and tracking tensile data.

Face of Quality

For a Robust Quality Environment There Has to Be Teamwork

Teamwork is more than launching a few teams.

Jimsmith_200

June 15, 2019

For a robust quality environment to exist and prosper there has to be teamwork. However, there are misunderstandings about the team of teamwork. For many organizations, it means launching and maintaining teams for isolated projects to improve various outputs.

From the Editor, Darryl Seland

Step by Step: Technology and Best Practices

Darryl

June 15, 2019

It would be an obvious understatement to say that technology plays a key role in just about everything we do, as well as how we do it.

Speaking of Quality

Measurement Management & the Applicable Standards

Inspection depends on well-defined measurement processes.

John Vandenbemden

June 15, 2019

Many times, in the world of quality, there are resources available that are unknown to many of our colleagues. One of these resources is the standard ISO 10012: 2003, “Measurement management—Requirements for measurement processes and measuring equipment.”

Other Dimensions

Depth Steps on Gages

Avoid some common pitfalls.

Hillcox_200

June 15, 2019

This is an area of gage making that takes something simple like a go/nogo plain plug gage and adds another feature for another check, such as hole depth.

Custom CMM fixture

Are You Maximizing the Benefits of Metrology Fixturing?

June 15, 2019

Within a metrology inspection environment, fixturing is a three-step process of positioning, locating and securing a workpiece within a measuring volume for inspection.

A student detecting a defect with ultrasonic testing.

Promoting Nondestructive Testing to the Next Generation

It is up to NDT practitioners to spread the word about this important industry..

June 3, 2019

Nondestructive testing (NDT) is the most important industry you’ve never heard of. That’s how I typically start a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) demonstration.

gas detection systems

Helium 101: Making the most of trace-gas-based leak testing

Helium has been the dominant trace gas of choice for many years.

June 10, 2019

Helium leak testing is one of the oldest and most developed members of the family of trace-gas-based leak testing methods. Even though the title contains the word “helium,” this article is intended as an overview of trace gas methods in general.

Ultrasonics

Ultrasonic Techniques for High Temperature Hydrogen Attack

Well-trained NDT technicians using the right combination of ultrasonic techniques can improve plant reliability and worker safety.

June 8, 2019

It’s been nine years since a heat exchanger burst at an oil refinery in Anacortes, WA, fatally injuring seven workers and bringing renewed attention to the risks of high-temperature hydrogen attack (HTHA).

Nondestructive Inspection

NDT Data for Process Control and Monitoring

Most advanced NDT methods have several different options for data output.

Gregory James Weaver

June 8, 2019

Over the last 10 to 15 years, NDT methods have grown smarter and smarter. New methods have been developed and old methods have been improved. Some of today’s NDT is leaps and bounds ahead of where it used to be.

2.8mm camera module and LEDs

Articulating Video Borescope Diameters are Shrinking while Image Quality Improves

The name of the game is always higher resolution, greater detail, improved accuracy, and faster speeds.

June 3, 2019

Advancements in technology continue to enhance the capabilities of all areas of industrial quality and process control, and this is certainly the case within the various disciplines of nondestructive testing (NDT).

Fluke ii900 Sonic Industrial Imager

The Fluke ii900 Sonic Industrial Imager

June 8, 2019

According to the Compressed Air and Gas Institute (CAGI), the average compressed air system loses 30 percent of its air through leaks but locating those leaks has been a time-consuming and te-dious process.

Cal Test

Cal Test Electronics Active Probes

June 15, 2019

Cal Test Electronics is introducing three new active probes to its comprehensive offering of differential oscilloscope probes. The three new probes provide unique features so users can find just the right one for their measurement application.

Ultrasonic sensors

Pepperl+Fuchs Ultrasonic Sensor Series

June 8, 2019

Pepperl+Fuchs introduced the new UCC*-50GK series ultrasonic sensor. Only two sensor ver-sions are required for covering a wide range of applications.

Brunsen Instrument Company

Brunson Instrument STASIS Scanning Instrument Positioner

June 15, 2019

Brunson Instrument Company will launch STASIS, a mobile, agile scanning instrument positioner at Control 2019. The first-of-its-kind product allows all brands of scanning instruments up to 35 pounds to be positioned quickly and steadily anywhere within a 3-meter horizontal- and 2.1-meter vertical-range atop a sturdy, 4-wheeled Brunson base.

New Products

Zontec Synergy 1000, 1000+ Version 10.0

June 15, 2019

Zontec, Inc. announced the availability of Synergy 1000™ and Synergy 1000+ version 10.0.

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Quality June 2019

2019 June

Check out the June 2019 edition of Quality: Laser trackers, tensile data, fixtures for testing composites, calibration software and much more!

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